The doctoral dissertations of the former Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and Aalto University Schools of Technology (CHEM, ELEC, ENG, SCI) published in electronic format are available in the electronic publications archive of Aalto University - Aaltodoc.
Aalto

Aspects in Analysis and Model-Based Sound Synthesis of Plucked String Instruments

Cumhur Erkut

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology to be presented with due permission for public examination and debate in Auditorium S3, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, on the 14th of November, 2002, at 12 noon.

Overview in PDF format (ISBN 951-22-6190-1)   [578 KB]
Dissertation is also available in print (ISBN 951-22-6189-8)

Abstract

This thesis consists of an introduction and nine articles. The general framework of the articles is the analysis and synthesis of plucked string instruments. The articles document acoustical analysis and model-based sound synthesis of the tanbur, the kantele, the lute, and the ud that are all traditional or historical plucked string instruments. In addition, the author's contributions to the development of an integrated model-based plucked string synthesis system is presented. As a key study, the integrated system concentrates on model-based sound synthesis of the acoustic guitar. However, the sound synthesis models of other plucked string instruments are also implemented within the system. Finally, two alternative techniques that can be used in model-based sound synthesis are covered. The first technique focuses on the loop filter design based on a polynomial damping model. The second technique presents a synthesis model based on finite differences that can be used in real-time sound synthesis.

This thesis consists of an overview and of the following 9 publications:

  1. C. Erkut, T. Tolonen, M. Karjalainen, and V. Välimäki, Acoustical analysis of tanbur, a Turkish long-necked lute, in Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV6), Lyngby, Denmark, July 5-8, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 345-352. © 1999 IIAV. By permission.
  2. C. Erkut and V. Välimäki, Model-based sound synthesis of tanbur, a Turkish long-necked lute, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'00), Istanbul, Turkey, June 5-9, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 769-772. © 2000 IEEE. By permission.
  3. C. Erkut, M. Karjalainen, P. Huang, and V. Välimäki, Acoustical analysis and model-based sound synthesis of the kantele, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 112, no. 4, October, 2002, pp. 1681-1691.
  4. M. Laurson, J. Hiipakka, C. Erkut, M. Karjalainen, V. Välimäki, and M. Kuuskankare, From expressive notation to model-based sound synthesis: a case study of the acoustic guitar, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'99), Beijing, China, October 22-28, 1999, pp. 1-4. © 1999 by authors.
  5. C. Erkut, V. Välimäki, M. Karjalainen, and M. Laurson, Extraction of physical and expressive parameters for model-based sound synthesis of the classical guitar, presented at the AES 108th International Convention, Paris, France, February 19-22, 2000, preprint no. 5114, 17 p. © 2000 Audio Engineering Society. By permission.
  6. M. Laurson, C. Erkut, V. Välimäki, and M. Kuuskankare, Methods for modeling realistic playing in acoustic guitar synthesis, Computer Music Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 38-49, 2001. © 2001 MIT Press. By permission.
  7. C. Erkut, M. Laurson, M Kuuskankare and V. Välimäki, Model-based synthesis of the ud and the renaissance lute, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2001), Havana, Cuba, September 17-23, 2001, pp. 119-122. © 2001 by authors.
  8. C. Erkut, Model order selection techniques for the loop filter design of virtual string instruments, in Proceedings of the 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001), Orlando, FL, USA, July 22-25, 2001, vol. 10, pp. 529-534. © 2001 IIIS and author.
  9. C. Erkut and M. Karjalainen, Virtual strings based on a 1-D FDTD waveguide model, Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 22nd International Conference, Espoo, Finland, June 15-17, 2002, pp. 317-323. © 2002 Audio Engineering Society. By permission.

Keywords: acoustic signal processing, computer music, musical acoustics, physical modeling of musical instruments

This publication is copyrighted. You may download, display and print it for Your own personal use. Commercial use is prohibited.

© 2002 Helsinki University of Technology

Last update 2011-05-26